attrition

The concept that the fear of God and his judgment was a sufficient substitute for contritionusually refers to one of the four parts of the sacrament of Penance in the Roman Catholic Church that consists of hating one’s sins. Luther rejected... more in the sacramentComes from the Latin term sacramentum, which is a translation of the Greek term mysterion meaning “mystery,” and originally was used to refer to a... more of Penance and was advocated by some late medieval theologians.